Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Twain, Mark

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Proverb

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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!

39.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.