Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about Courage

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Corra Harris

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Anouilh, Jean

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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

Eco, Umberto

10.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Harold Wilson

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

Ovid

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Disney, Walt

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plutarch

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Mark Twain

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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 wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green