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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

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

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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 more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 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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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

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Thomson, James

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.