Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Courage

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tyger, Frank

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

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

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.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Disney, Walt

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Voltaire

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Hudson, William Henry

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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