Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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.

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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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.

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'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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Harold Wilson