Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Seneca

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Twain, Mark

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

11.

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Karr, Alphonse

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Churchill, Winston

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Mark Twain

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Greville, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

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

Corra Harris

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

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace