Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bradley, Omar

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Horace

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.