Motivational Quotes

Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

- Smith, Donald

Best Quotes about Courage

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

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Plutarch

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Mark Twain

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Euripides

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Clare Booth Luce