Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Plaut

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mark Twain

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

John Wayne

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

King, Basil

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Disney, Walt

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

Bible

49.

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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace