Motivational Quotes

Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Petit-Senn, John

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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Karr, Alphonse

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Plaut

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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Twain, Mark

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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 is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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.