Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Worsham, James A.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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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

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.