Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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

'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

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Luce, Timothy

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

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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Taylor, Bayard

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Greville, Lord

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

18.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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 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

25.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

30.

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!

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Horace

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von