Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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!

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

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Proverb

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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

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished