Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Thomson, James

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

Richter, Jean Paul

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Plutarch

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Cicero

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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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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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Ovid

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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