Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bradbury, Ray

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Seneca

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

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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!

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

Ovid

10.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

13.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

17.

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

Young, Owen D.

18.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

21.

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.

22.

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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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

25.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

30.

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

Horace

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Joel, Billy

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

Sherman, William T.

42.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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