Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mark Twain

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Plutarch

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

King, Basil

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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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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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

John Wayne

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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 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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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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

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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