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

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

Bible

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Pollock, Channing

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

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

King, Basil

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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

Bible

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Harold Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Battista, D.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