Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Greville, Lord

Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Thomson, James

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

Ovid

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

E. M. Forster

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

32.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Plaut

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von