Motivational Quotes

Courage

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Plaut

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Petit-Senn, John

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Bradley, Omar

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