Motivational Quotes

Courage

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Corra Harris

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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.

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Mark Twain

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seneca

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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.