Motivational Quotes

Courage

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Mark Twain

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Mark Twain

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

19.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Valois, Margaret

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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 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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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