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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.