Motivational Quotes

Courage

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!

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Adler, Freda

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Euripides

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Greville, Lord

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Plutarch

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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 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 brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Luther, Martin

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Plaut

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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.