Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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?

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Disney, Walt

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

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Ovid

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Karr, Alphonse

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Luther, Martin

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William