Motivational Quotes

Courage

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Plaut

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Proverb

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Plutarch

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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

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

Corra Harris

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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