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 the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bernanos, Georges

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

Madwed, Sidney

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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.

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

Plutarch

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

Bible

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Disney, Walt

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

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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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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano