Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

King, Basil

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

John Quincy Adams

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Seneca

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

Zapata, Emiliano

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Voltaire

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Weininger, Ben

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca