Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Corra Harris

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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.

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

Disney, Walt

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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

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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

25.

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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Battista, D.A.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

King, Basil

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

42.

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

Thomson, James

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

John Wayne

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

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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