Motivational Quotes

Courage

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Adler, Freda

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Johnson, John

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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 strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John Wayne

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare