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

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

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Worsham, James A.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

18.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Euripides

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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?

31.

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

32.

'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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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.

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

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

John Quincy Adams