Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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.

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

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

Bible

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Horace

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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 the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Collier, Jeremy

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Cicero

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