Motivational Quotes

Courage

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

John Quincy Adams

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bible

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Plutarch

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

John Wayne

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Plaut

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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

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

Corra Harris

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

Jean Paul Richter

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Brown, Les

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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