Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bradley, Omar

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Twain, Mark

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Ellinger, Jules

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Horace

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

26.

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

Anouilh, Jean

27.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

35.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

39.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

40.

'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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

43.

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

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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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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.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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!

50.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van