Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Bible

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

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

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.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

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

Karr, Alphonse

11.

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

12.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.