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

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

Bernanos, Georges

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Tyger, Frank

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

'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

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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

26.

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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Plaut

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

Valois, Margaret

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

37.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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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.

45.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Voltaire

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose