Motivational Quotes

Courage

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Harold Wilson

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

Bernanos, Georges

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Greville, Lord

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

Bible

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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

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

Ovid

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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

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Smith, Sydney

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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