Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thomson, James

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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 most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

John Wayne

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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 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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Bible

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Fortune and love favor the brave.