Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Plutarch

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

Tyger, Frank

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

King, Basil

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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