Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

William Shakespeare

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

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

King, Basil

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Disney, Walt

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.