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

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Cicero

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Tyger, Frank

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Carnegie, Dale

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Hazlitt, William

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

20.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Bible

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Luce, Timothy

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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