Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Harold Wilson

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Shakespeare, William