Motivational Quotes

Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Eco, Umberto

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

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

10.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

11.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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 brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Kirby Larson

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Jensen, Andrew

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