Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Luther, Martin

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

10.

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

11.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

13.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

16.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

17.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

24.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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.

26.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

28.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

32.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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

40.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

43.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.