Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plaut

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Carroll, Lewis