Motivational Quotes

Courage

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Young, Owen D.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

28.

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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

31.

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

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Plutarch

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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'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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois