Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Luther, Martin

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Seneca

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

42.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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