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

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plaut

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

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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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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

Ovid

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace