Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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.

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

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

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Greville, Lord

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Twain, Mark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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