Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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.

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.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Twain, Mark

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Cicero

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.