Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Ovid

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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 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.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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

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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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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luther, Martin

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Bible

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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