Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

John Wayne

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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.

10.

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

11.

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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

15.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

16.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

19.

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

Anouilh, Jean

20.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

21.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Plutarch

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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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

26.

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

Thomas Fuller

27.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

28.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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

30.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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

32.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

33.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

36.

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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

38.

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

Bombeck, Erma

39.

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

Anouilh, Jean

40.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Ovid

45.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

46.

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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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