Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Bible

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

John Wayne

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy