Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Waitley, Denis

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 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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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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 is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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

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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.

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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.