Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Voltaire

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Forbes, B. C.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Adler, Freda

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, 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

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Barton, Bruce

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.