Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Clare Booth Luce

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Johnson, Samuel

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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 is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Sherman, William T.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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