Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Joel, Billy

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

11.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

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

John Wayne

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Mark Twain

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

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Taylor, Bayard

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van