Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ovid

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

John Wayne

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Carroll, Lewis

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Bradley, Omar

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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?

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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

Cicero, Marcus T.