Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ovid

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Disney, Walt

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bible

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller