Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Courage

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

E. M. Forster

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jean Paul Richter

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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