Motivational Quotes

Courage

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Best Quotes about Courage

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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

11.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

12.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Mark Twain

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

17.

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.

18.

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

Plutarch

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

John Wayne

25.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

26.

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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

30.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

33.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

34.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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.

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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!

42.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

43.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von