Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Jean Paul Richter

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

E. M. Forster

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.