Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ovid

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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Young, Owen D.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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

John Wayne

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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