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

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Seneca

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

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

Thomson, James

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Corra Harris

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Plaut

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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!

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Ovid

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

Plutarch

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

John Wayne

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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