Motivational Quotes

Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

10.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hudson, William Henry

28.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

John Quincy Adams

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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 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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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.

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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You have to be tough.