Motivational Quotes

Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Smith, Sydney

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Disney, Walt

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

Plutarch

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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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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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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.