Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Monson, Thomas S.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Plutarch

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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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

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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

14.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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 almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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 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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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 is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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