Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lewis, Sinclair

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

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.

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

Bible

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Corra Harris

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Weininger, Ben

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

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Eco, Umberto

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Hudson, William Henry