Motivational Quotes

Courage

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

- Gilder, Richard Watson

Best Quotes about Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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?

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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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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.

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

John Wayne

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harold Wilson

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

Johnson, John

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.