Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

William Shakespeare

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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

11.

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

Valois, Margaret

12.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Euripides

16.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Collier, Jeremy

18.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

30.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

34.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Bible

40.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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

47.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

50.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert