Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Shakespeare, William

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

John Wayne

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Joel, Billy

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Twain, Mark

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Horace

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

Lewis, Sinclair

23.

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Corra Harris

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.