Motivational Quotes

Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Courage

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

King, Basil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

19.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Plutarch

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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