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

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

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

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

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Kirby Larson

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

King, Basil

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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'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

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.