Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Adler, Freda

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ovid

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.