Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lao-Tzu

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

27.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Thomas Fuller

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

36.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

John Wayne

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Cicero

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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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