Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Churchill, Winston

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

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

Ovid

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Thomson, James

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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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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

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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 is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo