Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clare Booth Luce

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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

Menander of Athens

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

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