Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Harold Wilson

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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