Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Mark Twain

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Bible

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Churchill, Winston

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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'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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

37.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph