Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

11.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

17.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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.

21.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bible

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Plutarch

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

33.

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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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