Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Weininger, Ben

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Cicero

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Sherman, William T.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

17.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Valois, Margaret

25.

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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Barton, Bruce

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bible

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

Plaut

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel