Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

- John Wayne

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Plaut

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Corra Harris

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Seneca

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Lao-Tzu

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell