Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Courage

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Horace

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

12.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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 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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.

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

28.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Cicero

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Plaut

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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