Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about Courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barton, Bruce

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.

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Voltaire

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

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

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Horace

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bible

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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'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

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cicero

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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