Motivational Quotes

Courage

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Plutarch

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

Bible

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Petit-Senn, John

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Cicero

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Bible

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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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Proverb

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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 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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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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.