Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Corra Harris

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

King, Basil

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.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William