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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Voltaire

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harold Wilson

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Landers, Ann

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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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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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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

26.

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.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

30.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

31.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo