Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Harold Wilson

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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.

21.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bible

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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Plaut

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.