Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Plaut

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Kirby Larson

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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

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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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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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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Smith, Sydney

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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