Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Mark Twain

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Carnegie, Dale

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Smith, Sydney

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Euripides

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Menander of Athens

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

E. M. Forster

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mark Twain

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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