Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Greville, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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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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

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy