Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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 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

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

Joel, Billy

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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 afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Greville, Lord

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les