Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bible

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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 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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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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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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Fortune helps the brave.