Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Hudson, William Henry

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Joel, Billy

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

12.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Euripides

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Worsham, James A.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Seneca