Motivational Quotes

Courage

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Bible

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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Disney, Walt

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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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

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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.