Motivational Quotes

Courage

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

- Madwed, Sidney

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Johnson, John

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Ovid

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Waitley, Denis

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Voltaire

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Battista, D.A.

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Eco, Umberto

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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