Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

John Wayne

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

Euripides

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Disney, Walt

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

Battista, D.A.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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