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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Harold Wilson

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

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

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

King, Basil

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Greville, Lord