Motivational Quotes

Courage

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Valois, Margaret

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Plutarch

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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 not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Euripides

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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.