Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Twain, Mark

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.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horace

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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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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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

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Bible

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'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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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 dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Greville, Lord

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

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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.

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

William Shakespeare

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

John Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.