Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Battista, D.A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plaut

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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 are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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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.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Adler, Freda

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens