Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Luther, Martin

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Valois, Margaret

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Adler, Freda

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Horace

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