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

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disney, Walt

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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

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

Plutarch

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Mark Twain

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

40.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Plaut

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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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.