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

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

John Wayne

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Basil

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

Carnegie, Dale

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Ovid

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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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

28.

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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Clare Booth Luce

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

48.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.