Motivational Quotes

Courage

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Courage

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

19.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

John Wayne

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

25.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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 are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horace

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

41.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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