Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about 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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Tyger, Frank

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

John Quincy Adams

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

15.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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 is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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.

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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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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

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

41.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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Maltz, Maxwell

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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

49.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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