Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Joel, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kirby Larson

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Greville, Lord

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

36.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

John Wayne

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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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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Cicero

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Adler, Freda

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Have the courage of your desire.