Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Collier, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Courage

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Seneca

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Joel, Billy

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

Kirby Larson

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plaut

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Worsham, James A.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow