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

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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kirby Larson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bible

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Greville, Lord

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Churchill, Winston