Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

12.

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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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Battista, D.A.

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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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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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

31.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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

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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

35.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

38.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

39.

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

Taylor, Bayard

40.

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

Seneca

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

47.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

48.

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

49.

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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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