Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Bible

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Ovid

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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 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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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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.