Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Omar

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

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

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

Cicero

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

John Quincy Adams

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Bombeck, Erma

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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

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

Greville, Lord

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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]

Bible

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomson, James

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

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse