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

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

Voltaire

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.