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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Carroll, Lewis

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

10.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

11.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

12.

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

Ellinger, Jules

13.

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

Disney, Walt

14.

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

Joel, Billy

15.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

16.

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

Weininger, Ben

17.

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

Taylor, Bayard

18.

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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

22.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

23.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Valois, Margaret

25.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

27.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

King, Basil

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

34.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

40.

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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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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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

44.

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

Kirby Larson

45.

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

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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 is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald