Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Cicero

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

King, Basil

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Seneca

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

E. M. Forster

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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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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Churchill, Winston