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

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

Mark Twain

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shakespeare, William

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

10.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

11.

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

12.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

19.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

20.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Seneca

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Greville, Lord

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

King, Basil

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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!

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

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

Horace

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.