Motivational Quotes

Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Best Quotes about Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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

Seneca

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plaut

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Euripides

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

Eco, Umberto

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Proverb

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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.