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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

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

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Plutarch

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Cicero

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ovid

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Luther, Martin

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Harold Wilson

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

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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

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

Mark Twain

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

John Quincy Adams

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen