Motivational Quotes

Courage

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

- Morris, Lewis

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Bombeck, Erma

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Luther, Martin

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

Plaut

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Forbes, B. C.

18.

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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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell