Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Proverb

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Adler, Freda

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Mark Twain

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Worsham, James A.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Churchill, Winston

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch