Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Disney, Walt

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

Carnegie, Dale

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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 am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.