Motivational Quotes

Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Kirby Larson

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

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

Cicero

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradley, Omar

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

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

Worsham, James A.

11.

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

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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 is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ovid

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Luther, Martin

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

39.

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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50.

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