Motivational Quotes

Courage

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

E. M. Forster

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

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Disney, Walt

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Horace

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lao-Tzu

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

40.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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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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

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin