Motivational Quotes

Courage

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Plutarch

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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 scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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