Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

John Wayne

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.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

'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

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Adler, Freda

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

Joel, Billy

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kirby Larson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert