Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bernanos, Georges

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Seneca

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

Worsham, James A.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Joel, Billy

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 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

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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'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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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

31.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

32.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

John Wayne

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

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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 afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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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

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William