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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Harold Wilson

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Kirby Larson

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Jean Paul Richter

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert