Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Collier, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

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

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Greville, Lord

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Plutarch

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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 didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare