Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lao-Tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

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

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

10.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Plaut

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

22.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Horace

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bible

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius