Motivational Quotes

Courage

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Johnson, John

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

Worsham, James A.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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