Motivational Quotes

Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Basil

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

Carnegie, Dale

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Bible

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

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

Luther, Martin

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Plaut

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie