Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Taylor, Bayard

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.