Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Greville, Lord

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

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Joel, Billy

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Smith, Sydney

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

John Wayne

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

Euripides

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pollock, Channing

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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!

29.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

Battista, D.A.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

41.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin