Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about 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

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.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

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

William Shakespeare

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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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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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Kirby Larson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Cicero

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard