Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Mignon McLaughlin

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

King, Basil

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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

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

E. M. Forster

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert