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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Adler, Freda

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Luce, Timothy

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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Pollock, Channing

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Seneca

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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 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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Lao-Tzu

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cicero

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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 bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De