Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Forbes, B. C.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

'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

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

Corra Harris

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Ovid

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

Harold Wilson

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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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

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

Seneca

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.