Motivational Quotes

Courage

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

- Pollock, Channing

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

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.

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

Joel, Billy

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Bradley, Omar

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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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!

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mark Twain

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

William Shakespeare

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais