Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

10.

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

11.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

12.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

13.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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.

18.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

25.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

26.

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

Hudson, William Henry

27.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

28.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Anouilh, Jean

33.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Mark Twain

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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

41.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.