Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Collier, Jeremy

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Bible

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Hudson, William Henry

12.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

16.

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

Plutarch

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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

19.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

20.

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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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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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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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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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

27.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

47.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

48.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

49.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.