Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Taylor, Bayard

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Plaut

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Voltaire

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Pollock, Channing

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Horace

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