Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Corra Harris

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

King, Basil

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Plutarch

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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 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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

21.

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

Thomas Fuller

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

23.

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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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

John Wayne

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Euripides

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Mark Twain

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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

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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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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Churchill, Winston