Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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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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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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

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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 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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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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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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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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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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bible

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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

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo