Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living 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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

E. M. Forster

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Twain, Mark

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Thomas Fuller

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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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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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.