Motivational Quotes

Courage

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

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!

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Battista, D.A.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Kirby Larson

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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