Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Luther, Martin

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Adler, Freda

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Ovid

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre