Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Corra Harris

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

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

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

10.

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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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

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

Kirby Larson

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

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

Harold Wilson

25.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

29.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

32.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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33.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

36.

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

Valois, Margaret

37.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

38.

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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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

40.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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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?