Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Forbes, B. C.

15.

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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

King, Basil

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Eco, Umberto

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shakespeare, William

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo