Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Plutarch

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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.

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Pollock, Channing

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Harold Wilson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Twain, Mark

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weininger, Ben

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Churchill, Winston

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Adler, Freda