Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Joel, Billy

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

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

Horace

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Sherman, William T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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