Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Seneca

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

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.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ovid

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Valois, Margaret

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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.