Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ellinger, Jules

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero

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

Horace

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Plaut

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert