Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Lao-Tzu

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Sherman, William T.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plaut

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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'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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.