Motivational Quotes

Courage

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Disney, Walt

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

King, Basil

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Kirby Larson

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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 have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

39.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thomson, James

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid