Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plaut

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Euripides

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Adler, Freda

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

Harold Wilson

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.