Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Petit-Senn, John

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

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

Cicero

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

Bible

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

11.

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

Jean Paul Richter

12.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

17.

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

Bradbury, Ray

18.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

24.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

25.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

30.

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

Adler, Freda

31.

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

32.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

37.

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

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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto