Motivational Quotes

Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about 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

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Voltaire

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

E. M. Forster

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.