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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

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

Bible

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

11.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

12.

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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

15.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

17.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

19.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

25.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

28.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

34.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

35.

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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

40.

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

Voltaire

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

John Quincy Adams

47.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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