Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

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

Twain, Mark

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Disney, Walt

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Cicero

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Euripides

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Johnson, John

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Worsham, James A.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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