Motivational Quotes

Courage

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Worsham, James A.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Joel, Billy

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

John Wayne

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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.

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Kirby Larson

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bradley, Omar

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew