Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- John Quincy Adams

Best Quotes about Courage

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?

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Ovid

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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Bible

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Bible

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Weininger, Ben

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek