Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ellinger, Jules

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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

John Wayne

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bible

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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

14.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

15.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

23.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Ovid

26.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

27.

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

28.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Thomas Fuller

30.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

34.

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

35.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

36.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

38.

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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

40.

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

43.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo