Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

John Wayne

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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 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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Harold Wilson

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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Fortune favors the brave.