Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Karr, Alphonse

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

William Shakespeare

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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 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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished