Motivational Quotes

Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

11.

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

12.

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

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

14.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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.

16.

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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

21.

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

Bible

22.

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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

25.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

27.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Sydney

30.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

31.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

32.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

34.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

35.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

39.

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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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

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

48.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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