Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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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]

Bible

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Battista, D.A.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Adler, Freda

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

King, Basil

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William