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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Luce, Timothy

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Collier, Jeremy

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Shakespeare, William

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

John Wayne

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

Joel, Billy

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis