Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Richter, Jean Paul

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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!

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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?

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

Mark Twain

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Forbes, B. C.