Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Hudson, William Henry

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Adler, Freda

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

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

Ovid

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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.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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 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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Greville, Lord

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Anouilh, Jean