Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

- Cody, Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Karr, Alphonse

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

10.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

11.

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.

12.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Euripides

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

20.

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.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

28.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Proverb

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

33.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

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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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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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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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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander