Motivational Quotes

Courage

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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 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.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mark Twain

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Luther, Martin

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Bible

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse