Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Young, Owen D.

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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.

Spender, Stephen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eco, Umberto

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cicero

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund