Motivational Quotes

Courage

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

- Greville, Lord

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

King, Basil

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

John Wayne

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

Horace

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Ovid

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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