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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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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.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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 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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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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 sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Disney, Walt