Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Joel, Billy

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Menander of Athens

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bible

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Greville, Lord

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Johnson, John

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

Clare Booth Luce

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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