Motivational Quotes

Courage

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Landers, Ann

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Greville, Lord

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Anouilh, Jean

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Mark Twain

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