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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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

Disney, Walt

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Battista, D.A.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Kirby Larson

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie