Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Eco, Umberto

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.