Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Proverb

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

King, Basil

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Corra Harris

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

30.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tyger, Frank

35.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Karr, Alphonse

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Kirby Larson

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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.