Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plaut

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

13.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Cicero

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

Adler, Freda

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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 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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Horace

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

Mark Twain

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Luther, Martin

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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