Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Best Quotes about Courage

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

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

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

11.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Adler, Freda

13.

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

Greville, Lord

14.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

17.

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

18.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Plutarch

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, John

26.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

27.

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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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

29.

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

Bible

30.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Plutarch

37.

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

Worsham, James A.

38.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

39.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Thomson, James

43.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

44.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

48.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

49.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.