Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Plaut

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

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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

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

Horace

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Mark Twain

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.