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

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

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

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

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Voltaire

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one reaches a high position without daring.