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

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Plutarch

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Valois, Margaret

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