Motivational Quotes

Courage

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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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

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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'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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.