Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Luce, Timothy

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.

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

Valois, Margaret

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

12.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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 reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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'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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

30.

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

Mark Twain

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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

Horace

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.