Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

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

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

King, Basil

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Seneca

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Smith, Sydney

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James