Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Euripides

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Plaut