Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Cicero

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bible

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Plaut

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Euripides

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

Kirby Larson

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace

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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Seneca

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von