Motivational Quotes

Courage

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Courage

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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.

Jensen, Andrew

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Twain, Mark

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

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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]

Bible

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

Valois, Margaret

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid