Motivational Quotes

Courage

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

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

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cicero

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

King, Basil

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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.

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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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.