Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Ellinger, Jules

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

10.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

11.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

22.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Horace

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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.

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

Euripides

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

King, Basil

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

Voltaire

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De