Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Courage

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

King, Basil

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

Bible

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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 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 is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Mark Twain

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

Joel, Billy

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Voltaire

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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