Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Greville, Lord

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

15.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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

20.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Valois, Margaret

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Weininger, Ben

25.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

Voltaire

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

33.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

35.

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

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

43.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]