Motivational Quotes

Courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Twain, Mark

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

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

John Wayne

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

William Shakespeare

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

Clare Booth Luce

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Valois, Margaret

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Greville, Lord

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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

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

Kirby Larson

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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]

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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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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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