Motivational Quotes

Courage

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

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

Disney, Walt

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Corra Harris

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Valois, Margaret

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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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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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor