Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Luther, Martin

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, John

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Corra Harris

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth