Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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!

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

John Quincy Adams

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Seneca

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

Adler, Freda

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

Menander of Athens

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Thomas Fuller

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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 true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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 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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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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