Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Young, Owen D.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

E. M. Forster

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ovid

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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