Motivational Quotes

Courage

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

- Lindbergh, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Seneca

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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