Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Adler, Freda

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Young, Owen D.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

10.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

12.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

13.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

14.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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

18.

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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

20.

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

21.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

22.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

23.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Joel, Billy

28.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Carroll, Lewis

30.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

33.

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

Bernanos, Georges

34.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Plaut

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

Greville, Lord

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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Mark Twain

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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?

49.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin