Motivational Quotes

Courage

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

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

Thomas Fuller

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Battista, D.A.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

11.

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

Menander of Athens

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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