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 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

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Luce, Timothy

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Valois, Margaret

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

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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

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Mark Twain

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Disney, Walt

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Mark Twain

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Kirby Larson

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

46.

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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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