Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Johnson, John

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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'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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plutarch

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kirby Larson

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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