Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Tyger, Frank

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Menander of Athens

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Ovid

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Johnson, John

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Cicero

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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