Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Greville, Lord

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Luther, Martin

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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.

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

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

Bible

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Plaut

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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

Battista, D.A.

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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 rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Twain, Mark

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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