Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Jean Paul Richter

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Bombeck, Erma

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

22.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Churchill, Winston

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Weininger, Ben

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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 spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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