Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

King, Basil

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

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

Bible

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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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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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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'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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Greville, Lord

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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 is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.