Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

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

Valois, Margaret

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero

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

Mark Twain

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

41.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Luther, Martin

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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