Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Eco, Umberto

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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.

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Disney, Walt

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anouilh, Jean