Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Horace

10.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

13.

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

Voltaire

15.

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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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 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 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.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

24.

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

25.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Greville, Lord

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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

29.

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

Barton, Bruce

30.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

34.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Eco, Umberto

42.

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.

43.

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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.