Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

John Wayne

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Ovid

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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.

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

Johnson, John

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Corra Harris

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Bible

25.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

33.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.