Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

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

Voltaire

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

Pollock, Channing

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

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Plutarch

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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.

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.