Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Collier, Jeremy

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?

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

Tyger, Frank

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

18.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

24.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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

28.

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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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

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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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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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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Mark Twain

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bradley, Omar

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

50.

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