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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Shakespeare, William

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?

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Young, Owen D.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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

Plaut

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

39.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.