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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Thomson, James

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

15.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

16.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

19.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

20.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

21.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

22.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

26.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

27.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

28.

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

29.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

32.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Plaut

35.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

37.

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

Seneca

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

Sherman, William 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 spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

44.

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.

45.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

49.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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