Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Collier, Jeremy

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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

Bible

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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 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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kirby Larson

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

Cicero

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

Battista, D.A.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.