Motivational Quotes

Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Euripides

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.