Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Ovid

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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 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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Plaut

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

33.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

36.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

Graham, James

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Battista, D.A.

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Teresa of Avila, St.