Motivational Quotes

Courage

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mark Twain

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Basil

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Euripides

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Bible

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Ovid