Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

21.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb

31.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Luther, Martin

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

42.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William