Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am more important than my problems.

- Ferrer, Jose

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Plutarch

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

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Plaut

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Valois, Margaret

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

E. M. Forster

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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