Motivational Quotes

Courage

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Disney, Walt

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

10.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

11.

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

12.

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

Plaut

13.

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

14.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

41.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kirby Larson

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid