Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

29.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

41.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

43.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

48.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler