Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Adler, Freda

11.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

13.

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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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

19.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Plaut

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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

27.

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

Weininger, Ben

28.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

30.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

31.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

32.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

34.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

E. M. Forster

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.