Motivational Quotes

Courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Forbes, B. C.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

John Quincy Adams

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Valois, Margaret

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Plaut

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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!