Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Euripides

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Ovid

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Twain, Mark

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca