Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Harold Wilson

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

10.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

13.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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 fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

31.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Thomson, James

34.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

37.

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!

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

Jean Paul Richter

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Zapata, Emiliano

43.

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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence