Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Plaut

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Young, Owen D.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Plutarch

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Bible

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bible

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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