Motivational Quotes

Courage

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Sherman, William T.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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.