Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Joel, Billy

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

46.

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

Euripides

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.