Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Eco, Umberto

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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark