Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- John Wayne

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bernanos, Georges

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Corra Harris

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Twain, Mark

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.