Motivational Quotes

Courage

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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 are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Mark Twain

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Clare Booth Luce

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

John Quincy Adams

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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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?

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Plaut

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Shakespeare, William

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Karr, Alphonse

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

King, Basil

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

Horace

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth