Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Lao-Tzu

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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 I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Joel, Billy

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

John Wayne

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

Proverb

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose