Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Eco, Umberto

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Plutarch

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Shakespeare, William

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Disney, Walt

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Young, Owen D.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Voltaire

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Bible

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

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.