Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Corra Harris

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

13.

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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Cicero

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Horace

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

Taylor, Bayard

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

43.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.