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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

William Shakespeare

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Corra Harris

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Bible

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Sherman, William T.

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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

John Wayne

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.