Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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.

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

Plaut

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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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

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Disney, Walt

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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

John Wayne

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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

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Proverb

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

E. M. Forster

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

Hudson, William Henry

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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