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

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

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

Joel, Billy

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Greville, Lord

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Seneca

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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.

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Worsham, James A.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.