Motivational Quotes

Courage

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Greville, Lord

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Plaut

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

17.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

21.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

23.

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!

24.

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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

27.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hudson, William Henry

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

36.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Omar

48.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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