Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Tyger, Frank

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

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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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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.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Horace

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Mark Twain

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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

Petit-Senn, John

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose