Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Adler, Freda

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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

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

John Wayne

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

Menander of Athens

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Battista, D.A.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

22.

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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Greville, Lord

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

Plutarch

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Sherman, William T.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

John Quincy Adams

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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.