Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Worsham, James A.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Harold Wilson

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kirby Larson

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Voltaire

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Cicero

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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