Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Pollock, Channing

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

John Wayne

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Worsham, James A.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tyger, Frank

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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

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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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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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 brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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.