Motivational Quotes

Courage

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Joel, Billy

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Plutarch

15.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Taylor, Bayard

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Eco, Umberto

25.

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

John Wayne

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

27.

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

Battista, D.A.

28.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Valois, Margaret

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

38.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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.

40.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

42.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

44.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.