Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Adler, Freda

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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.

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

Jean Paul Richter

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

28.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

34.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.