Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Tyger, Frank

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Clare Booth Luce

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bible

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Thomson, James

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler