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

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ellinger, Jules

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Tyger, Frank

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

14.

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?

15.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.