Motivational Quotes

Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Greville, Lord

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

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

King, Basil

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

12.

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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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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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.

28.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Tyger, Frank

35.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

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

Pollock, Channing

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

E. M. Forster

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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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.