Motivational Quotes

Courage

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

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 amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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

Battista, D.A.

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 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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Pollock, Channing

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plaut

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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.