Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- John Quincy Adams

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plaut

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Bible

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Sherman, William T.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Joel, Billy