Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Menander of Athens

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Horace

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Seneca

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Forbes, B. C.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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 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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges