Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about 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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Thomson, James

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

Thomas Fuller

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Mark Twain

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ellinger, Jules

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Bible

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

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert