Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- John Wayne

Best Quotes about Courage

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hudson, William Henry

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Bernanos, Georges

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Disney, Walt

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

16.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Worsham, James A.

18.

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

Thomas Fuller

19.

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.

20.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

22.

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

Kirby Larson

23.

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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Plutarch

27.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

28.

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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

43.

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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

48.

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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek