Motivational Quotes

Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Anouilh, Jean

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 an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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.

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

Bradley, Omar

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Plaut

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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 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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Battista, D.A.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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