Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bible

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.