Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

10.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

11.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

19.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

20.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

23.

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

24.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Battista, D.A.

26.

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

Twain, Mark

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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.

30.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

36.

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Disney, Walt

40.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

42.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

43.

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

44.

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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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