Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tyger, Frank

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Bible

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

10.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

11.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

12.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

15.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Bible

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

21.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Twain, Mark

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Johnson, John

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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

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

44.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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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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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.