Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, John

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

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Valois, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

10.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

12.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

13.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

16.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

17.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

21.

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

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Young, Owen D.

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

35.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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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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'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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

45.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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