Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Adler, Freda

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

27.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

30.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Greville, Lord

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Sherman, William T.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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'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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Twain, Mark

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Petit-Senn, John