Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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?

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Worsham, James A.

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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 scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Paul Richter

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

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

Joel, Billy

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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 curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Ovid

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.