Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Young, Owen D.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Disney, Walt

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

King, Basil

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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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