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

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.

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luther, Martin

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

10.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

18.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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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 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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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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 great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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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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

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Worsham, James A.