Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Worsham, James A.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Proverb

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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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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Bible

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Valois, Margaret

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Beaton, Sir Cecil

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Weininger, Ben

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