Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ovid

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

E. M. Forster

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Mark Twain

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

Smith, Sydney

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

24.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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