Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Forbes, B. C.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plutarch

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

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

King, Basil

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

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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 rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

John Wayne

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

Kirby Larson

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What a new face courage puts on everything!