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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Luther, Martin

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

John Quincy Adams

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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 is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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 takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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