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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hudson, William Henry

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Bible

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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 real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Ellinger, Jules

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Bradley, Omar

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

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Shakespeare, William

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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'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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth