Motivational Quotes

Courage

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

King, Basil

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Twain, Mark

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Valois, Margaret

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.