Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Cicero

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Plaut

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Joel, Billy

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

King, Basil

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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