Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ovid

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

Bombeck, Erma

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirby Larson

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Plutarch

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Taylor, Bayard

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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 is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William