Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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

John Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Euripides

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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 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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Seneca

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Horace

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David