Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Harold Wilson

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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.

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

Twain, Mark

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Mark Twain