Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Plaut

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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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

John Wayne

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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