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

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bible

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Thomson, James

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Worsham, James A.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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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 ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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