Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Joel, Billy

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Greville, Lord

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Luther, Martin

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Seneca

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Thomas Fuller

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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.