Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Euripides

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

E. M. Forster

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Bible

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

King, Basil

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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