Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Pollock, Channing

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Gilmore, David

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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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Smith, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Adler, Freda

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

Proverb

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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 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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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