Motivational Quotes

Courage

Be larger than your task.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

'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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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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

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Bombeck, Erma

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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