Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

10.

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

11.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

22.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

23.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Bible

26.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

28.

'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

29.

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

30.

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.

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

Plutarch

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

40.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

41.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

46.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Twain, Mark