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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Seneca

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Johnson, Samuel

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Carroll, Lewis

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

11.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

13.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bible

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Johnson, John

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Valois, Margaret

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De