Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Plaut

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Young, Owen D.

11.

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

Johnson, John

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

Euripides

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

34.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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