Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Weininger, Ben

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shakespeare, William

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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