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

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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?

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

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mark Twain

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Karr, Alphonse

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Cicero

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt