Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Bible

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius