Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Thomson, James

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bible

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Twain, Mark

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.