Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Ovid

10.

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

Valois, Margaret

11.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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.

13.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

King, Basil

17.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

19.

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

Petit-Senn, John

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

24.

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

Battista, D.A.

25.

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

Jean Paul Richter

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

Bradley, Omar

29.

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

33.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

36.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

37.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

42.

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

Carnegie, Dale

43.

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

Kirby Larson

44.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

47.

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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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

49.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb