Motivational Quotes

Courage

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George