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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

'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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

11.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

18.

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

John Wayne

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eco, Umberto

28.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Greville, Lord

37.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Karr, Alphonse