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

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

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

Pollock, Channing

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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

Bible

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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

King, Basil

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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