Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Barton, Bruce

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Plaut

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Battista, D.A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

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

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

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

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

King, Basil

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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Mark Twain

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Young, Owen D.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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