Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mark Twain

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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

11.

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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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.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Lawana Blackwell

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

23.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Proverb

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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

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

34.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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

43.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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.

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

Valois, Margaret