Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

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

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

King, Basil

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Disney, Walt

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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

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

Harold Wilson

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thomas Fuller

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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