Motivational Quotes

Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomson, James

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Bombeck, Erma

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Plutarch

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

11.

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!

12.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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

20.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Voltaire

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Euripides

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

30.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

36.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mark Twain

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo