Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about 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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Churchill, Winston

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Greville, Lord

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Ovid

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pollock, Channing