Motivational Quotes

Courage

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

- Carlson, Curtis

Best Quotes about Courage

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Bible

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.

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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

11.

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

Bible

12.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

17.

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

Bernanos, Georges

18.

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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

23.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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

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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

29.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

31.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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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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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.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

43.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

44.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea