Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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 coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Thomas Fuller

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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 the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Plaut

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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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

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert