Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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!

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Shakespeare, William

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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 courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Cicero

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

King, Basil

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Euripides

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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