Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Worsham, James A.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

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

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Plaut

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bible

31.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Euripides

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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

Karr, Alphonse

39.

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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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