Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

John Wayne

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

11.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Battista, D.A.

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

18.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

30.

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

33.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard