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

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

Disney, Walt

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Voltaire

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

12.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hudson, William Henry

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

18.

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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, 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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

41.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas Fuller