Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am more important than my problems.

- Ferrer, Jose

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Luce, Timothy

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Weininger, Ben

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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

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Kirby Larson

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

Ovid

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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 the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Euripides

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Harold Wilson

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bombeck, Erma

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Adler, Freda

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von