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

Corra Harris

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

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

Twain, Mark

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Worsham, James A.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

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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.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mark Twain

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

32.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Luther, Martin

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