Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ovid

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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

11.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

Plutarch

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Plaut

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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