Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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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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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Battista, D.A.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut