Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Corra Harris

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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]

Bible

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

Horace

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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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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander