Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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?

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Plaut

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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 takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Thomas Fuller

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

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

Twain, Mark

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James, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Adler, Freda

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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