Motivational Quotes

Courage

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

41.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Adler, Freda