Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Thomson, James

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Disney, Walt

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

12.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

E. M. Forster

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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 is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

44.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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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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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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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.