Motivational Quotes

Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Courage

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

10.

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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Euripides

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

Ovid

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bible

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

Joel, Billy

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Lao-Tzu

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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No one reaches a high position without daring.