Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Jean Paul Richter

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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?

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ovid

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Twain, Mark

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Joel, Billy

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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 pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.