Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Horace

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Mark Twain

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Adler, Freda

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Twain, Mark

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor