Motivational Quotes

Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

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

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

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bible

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Anouilh, Jean

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Voltaire

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Waitley, Denis

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Mark Twain

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.