Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

14.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

King, Basil

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Lewis, Sinclair

32.

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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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