Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Adler, Freda

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

E. M. Forster

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, B. C.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Karr, Alphonse

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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