Motivational Quotes

Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Euripides

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Young, Owen D.

12.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

14.

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

Ellinger, Jules

15.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

16.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

18.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

19.

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

Bradley, Omar

20.

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

21.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

22.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

26.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

27.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

30.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

31.

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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

34.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

38.

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

John Quincy Adams

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

40.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

41.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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

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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.

44.

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

45.

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

Weininger, Ben

46.

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

47.

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

Carnegie, Dale

48.

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

49.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston