Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Menander of Athens

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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

Eco, Umberto