Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kirby Larson

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

Jean Paul Richter

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Bible

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

11.

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

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb

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

26.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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

30.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

32.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Plutarch

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tyger, Frank

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Ovid

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James