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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Johnson, John

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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.

'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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Kirby Larson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Voltaire

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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.

39.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Joel, Billy

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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