Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

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

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Corra Harris

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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 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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Johnson, John

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

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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]

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

John Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike