Motivational Quotes

Courage

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Thomas Fuller

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Plaut

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Cicero

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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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!

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Weininger, Ben

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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?

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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.