Motivational Quotes

Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Weininger, Ben

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Voltaire

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Shakespeare, William

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Schuller, Robert H.