Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Adler, Freda

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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.

Seabury, David

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

25.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

28.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

31.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

33.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

34.

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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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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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bradley, Omar

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.