Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

12.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

John Wayne

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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

23.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

27.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Voltaire