Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Bayard

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Adler, Freda

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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