Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ovid

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Plutarch

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Luther, Martin

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Kirby Larson

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

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

32.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

34.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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!

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

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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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