Motivational Quotes

Courage

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

- Hudson, William Henry

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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.

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

Bible

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

John Wayne

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Collier, Jeremy

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Mark Twain

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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Kirby Larson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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 fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Greville, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bible

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ovid

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

Plaut

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas