Motivational Quotes

Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Courage

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Brown, Les

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Thomas Fuller

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Euripides

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Proverb

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Fortune helps the brave.