Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

'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

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

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Corra Harris

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mark Twain

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Adler, Freda

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Shakespeare, William

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Harold Wilson

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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 is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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]

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