Motivational Quotes

Courage

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Luther, Martin

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Einstein, Albert

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Plaut

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Kirby Larson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Valois, Margaret

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ovid

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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]

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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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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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