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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Hudson, William Henry

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Adler, Freda

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luce, Timothy

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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

26.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

King, Basil

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.