Motivational Quotes

Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Courage

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

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

Twain, Mark

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Thomson, James

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Plaut

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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'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

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

Bible

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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