Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ovid

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Jensen, Andrew

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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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