Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

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

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

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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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

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.