Motivational Quotes

Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

- Bryant, Bear

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Shakespeare, William

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mark Twain

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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'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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

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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

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

E. M. Forster

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