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

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

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

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

Ovid

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Luther, Martin

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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