Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

- DeVos, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

15.

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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

William Shakespeare

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.