Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

John Wayne

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

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

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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Thomson, James

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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

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

Plutarch

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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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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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell