Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Cicero

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

'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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

11.

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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Luther, Martin

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Plaut

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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]

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