Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Greville, Lord

Best Quotes about Courage

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Luce, Timothy

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Disney, Walt

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Euripides

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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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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

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Cicero

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.