Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Plutarch

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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'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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Euripides

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Corra Harris

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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!