Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Courage

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

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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

Weininger, Ben

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tyger, Frank

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Eco, Umberto

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Battista, D.A.

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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