Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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 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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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

John Wayne

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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