Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Johnson, John

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

12.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Plutarch

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tyger, Frank

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.