Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

King, Basil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luther, Martin

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Smith, Sydney

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Young, Owen D.