Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomson, James

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

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

Ovid

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

Euripides

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Young, Owen D.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Ovid

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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 the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Mark Twain

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

John Wayne

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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

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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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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 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 is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

42.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Bible

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean