Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

E. M. Forster

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

Ovid

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Taylor, Bayard

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horace

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

22.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Valois, Margaret

24.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

John Wayne

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

Seneca

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

40.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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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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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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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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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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

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

Tyger, Frank

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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