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

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

King, Basil

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

11.

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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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

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

14.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Seneca

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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?

24.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

37.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

49.

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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De