Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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.

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

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Twain, Mark

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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?

11.

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

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Corra Harris

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

32.

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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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

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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 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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Shakespeare, William