Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

19.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

21.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

30.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Bible

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

34.

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

John Wayne

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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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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

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

41.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.