Motivational Quotes

Courage

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

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.

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

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

Valois, Margaret

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

15.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

18.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

31.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Karr, Alphonse

34.

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

35.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

36.

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

37.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

40.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Luther, Martin

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.