Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Anouilh, Jean

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Valois, Margaret

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mark Twain

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Thomas Fuller