Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bible

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Clare Booth Luce

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

19.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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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 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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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