Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Jean Paul Richter

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Corra Harris

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Plutarch

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

Bible

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo