Motivational Quotes

Courage

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Akhenaton

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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'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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard