Motivational Quotes

Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Jensen, Andrew

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Bradley, Omar

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Menander of Athens

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Petit-Senn, John