Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Eco, Umberto

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Tyger, Frank

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett