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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ovid

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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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Hazlitt, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Worsham, James A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mark Twain

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Plutarch

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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