Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Courage

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Battista, D.A.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark