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

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

Mark Twain

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Euripides

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

Horace

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, 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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joel, Billy

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano