Motivational Quotes

Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

- Smith, Donald

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Lewis, Sinclair

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

E. M. Forster

21.

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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

43.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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