Motivational Quotes

Courage

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

11.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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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

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

Kirby Larson

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Anouilh, Jean

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear