Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

'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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Churchill, Winston

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Voltaire

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harold Wilson

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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