Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Thomas Fuller

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bible

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ovid

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Proverb

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb