Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bradbury, Ray

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disney, Walt

10.

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

Sherman, William T.

11.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

12.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

14.

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

15.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

17.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

18.

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

19.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

John Wayne

23.

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

Eco, Umberto

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

31.

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

Bible

33.

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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Weininger, Ben

43.

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

44.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

45.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

46.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Luther, Martin