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

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

John Quincy Adams

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Plaut

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Luther, Martin

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Horace

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Greville, Lord

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod