Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bible

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Taylor, Bayard

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.

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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Adler, Freda

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bible

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Eco, Umberto

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