Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

11.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

13.

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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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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

18.

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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

20.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Proverb

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

32.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

33.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Voltaire

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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

39.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas