Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Voltaire

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lawana Blackwell

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

10.

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

Tyger, Frank

11.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

Mark Twain

13.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

14.

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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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

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

19.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

20.

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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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.

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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

25.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

30.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Shakespeare, William

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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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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

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

49.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu