Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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?

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

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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.

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bible

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Fuller

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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