Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Zapata, Emiliano

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Luce, Timothy

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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!

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Mark Twain

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Cicero

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Valois, Margaret