Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bible

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Monson, Thomas S.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Greville, Lord

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

18.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Horace

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

24.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

30.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

32.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

33.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

34.

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

35.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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 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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.