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

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

King, Basil

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Plaut

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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'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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Euripides

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

Johnson, John

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

Barton, Bruce

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

John Wayne

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.