Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am more important than my problems.

- Ferrer, Jose

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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'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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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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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul