Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Mark Twain

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Lao-Tzu

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Disney, Walt

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greville, Lord

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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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 fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Kirby Larson

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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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.