Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Seneca

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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 is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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!

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller