Motivational Quotes

Courage

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cicero

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

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Menander of Athens

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid