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Courage Quotes

 


Collection of quotes about courage.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon 
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. - Rollo May 
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill 
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along'. - Eleanor Roosevelt 
Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher 
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Green Ingersoll 
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. - Mark Twain 
Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey. - Cherie Carter-Scott 
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden 
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali 
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide 
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker 
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. - E. M. Forster 
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh 
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. - John F. Kennedy 
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin 
Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others. - Herbert Spencer 
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. - Raymond Lindquist 
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. - Carl von Clausewitz 
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. - Mark Rutherford 
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott 
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred North Whitehead 
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten 
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams 
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. - Kurt Goldstein 
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. - Henry Ford 
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. - Maya Angelou 
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing.  Bravely face whatever the gods offer. - Morihei Ueshiba 
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. - Jewel 
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. - Henry S. Haskins 
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillich 
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. - Charles Kennedy 
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham 
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.- George Smith Patton 
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou 
Courage is the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion 
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. - David Seabury 
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. - Diane de Poitiers 
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne 
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.  It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. - G.K. Chesterton 
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis 
Courage is nine-tenths context.  What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.- Joseph Epstein  
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 not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion 
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. - Carl Sandburg 
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

Adventure Quotes

 

Quotes for your hobby, adventure

Action Quotes

 


Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.- Brendan Francis
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. - Bradley Whitford
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.- Dale Carnegie
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.- Jack Canfield
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.- Peter Marshall
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.- Bob Keeshan
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.- Thomas Carlyle
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Never mistake motion for action.- Ernest Hemingway
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.- Anthony Robbins
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.- Zig Ziglar
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 
Action is eloquence.- William Shakespeare
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.- John Anster
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?- Tony Robbins
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.- Mary Kay Ash
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.- Mignon McLaughlin
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.- Nolan Bushnell
No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.- Richard Hammond
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.- Zig Ziglar
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.- Ross Perot
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?- Robert Brault
As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.- Donnie Yen
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.- John Greenleaf Whittier
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?- Jon Stewart
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.- Charles Barkley
Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.- Anna Popplewell
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.- Israelmore Ayivor
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.- Edmund Burke
Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.- Russel H. Conwell
Talk doesn’t cook rice.- Chinese Proverb
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.- Jawaharlal Nehru
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.- Thomas Alva Edison
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.- Baltasar Gracián
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.- Henri Frederic Amiel
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.- G.K. Chesterton
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?- Tony Goldwyn
I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.- James E. Faust
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.- Charlotte Bunch
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.- Augustus Hare
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.- William F. Halsey
We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.- Lana Wachowski 
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.- Aristotle
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.- Samuel Fuller

Achievement Quotes

 


The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.- Ashley Montagu
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.- Audrey Hepburn
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.- Epictetus
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.- Martha Washington
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.- Eskimo Proverb
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.- Omar Khayyam
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.- Tom Brady
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.- Marcel Proust
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.- Barbara de Angelis
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.- Marcel Pagnol
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.- Franz Schubert
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.- George Bernard Shaw
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.- William E. Gladstone
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.- Kim Smith
Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.- Gabriel Heatter
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.- Napoleon Hill
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.- David Bailey 
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.- Epictetus 
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.- Steve Prefontaine
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.- Adam Ant
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.- Gerard Butler
My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.- Alanis Morissette
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.- W. Clement Stone
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.- Edgar Lee Masters
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential? these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.- Eddie Robinson 

Happy Quotes

 


The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.- Ashley Montagu
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.- Audrey Hepburn
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.- Epictetus
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.- Martha Washington
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.- Eskimo Proverb
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.- Omar Khayyam
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.- Tom Brady
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.- Marcel Proust
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.- Barbara de Angelis
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.- Marcel Pagnol" 
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife." - Franz Schubert
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.- George Bernard Shaw 
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.- William E. Gladstone
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.- James Oppenheim
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.- Ayn Rand
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.- Denis Waitley
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.- Saul Bellow
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.- Ingrid Bergman
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.- Benjamin Franklin
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.- Martha Washington
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.- Joanne Harris
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.- Henry David Thoreau
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.- Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.- Ayn Rand
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.- Hugh Black
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.- Booth Tarkington
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.- Henry Van Dyke
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.- Joseph Addison
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.- Dalai Lama
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.- Thomas Szasz
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.- Lupe Fiasco
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.- J.D. Salinger 

Quotes About Life

 


Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.- Robert E. Lee
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.- W. Humboldt
Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.- Audre Lorde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.- Nelson Henderson
Live each day as if your life had just begun.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.- Charlotte Bronte
Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.- Unknown
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.- Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.- Grandma Moses 
You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.- English Proverb
Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.- Jean Anouilh
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.- John Wooden
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.- William James
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.- Katherine F. Gerould
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.- Unknown
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.- Jack Kerouac
A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.- Mandy Hale
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.- Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.- Carl Jung
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.- Josh Billings
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.- Louise L. Hay
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.- Lin Yutang
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.- Elise Boulding
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.- Prem Rawat
Over-thinking ruins you. Ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry, and just makes everything much worse than it actually is.- Unknown
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.- Truman Capote
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.- Soren Kierkegaard
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.- Erich Fromm
No matter how good of a woman you are, you will never be good enough to a man who isn’t ready.- Unknown
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.- Charlotte Bronte
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.- Helen Keller
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.- Karen Horney
Life is made up of marble and mud.- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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