Motivational Quotes

Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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.

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Voltaire

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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 a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.