Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Johnson, Samuel

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

King, Basil

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bombeck, Erma

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

28.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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?

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

Johnson, John

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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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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.

Hill, Aaron

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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