Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Corra Harris

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Clare Booth Luce

11.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Valois, Margaret

13.

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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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.

Twain, Mark

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bible

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Greville, Lord

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James