Motivational Quotes

Courage

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

- Adler, Freda

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

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

Bible

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plaut

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.