Motivational Quotes

Courage

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Anouilh, Jean

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Barton, Bruce

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Greville, Lord

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Adler, Freda

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer