Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

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

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kirby Larson

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

William Shakespeare

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Battista, D.A.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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.

Jackson, Andrew

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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