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

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.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bible

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Monson, Thomas S.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

12.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

John Wayne

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

27.

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.