Motivational Quotes

Courage

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

- Spender, Stephen

Best Quotes about Courage

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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?

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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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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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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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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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

King, Basil

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Disney, Walt

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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