Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Bible

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mark Twain

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

31.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace