Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

'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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

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

Proverb

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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'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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Churchill, Winston

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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