Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Petit-Senn, John

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!

10.

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.

11.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

17.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Johnson, John

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

Greville, Lord

20.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

27.

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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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

29.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Luther, Martin

33.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

40.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.