Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Tyger, Frank

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Disney, Walt

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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'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

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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.

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Weininger, Ben

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

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