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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Battista, D.A.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John Quincy Adams

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Pollock, Channing

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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 sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Plaut

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Menander of Athens