Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Ovid

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Thomas Fuller

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Horace

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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

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Adler, Freda

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William