Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Greville, Lord

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bible

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Proverb

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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

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Roosevelt, Theodore