Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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.

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Gilmore, David

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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 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.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Kirby Larson

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?