Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Battista, D.A.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

10.

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

11.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

12.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

13.

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

Tyger, Frank

14.

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

Cicero

15.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

16.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

17.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

18.

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.

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

21.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

28.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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'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

34.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

35.

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

Hudson, William Henry

36.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

37.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

41.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

42.

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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

45.

'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

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton