Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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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!

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

23.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

29.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]