Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- John Quincy Adams

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Cicero

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Greville, Lord

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

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

Proverb

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Anouilh, Jean