Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Seneca

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

Bradbury, Ray

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus 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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mark Twain

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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'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

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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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag