Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Bible

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

King, Basil

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

'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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

10.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

12.

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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Ovid

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kirby Larson

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

Mark Twain

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Sherman, William T.

39.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

41.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

43.

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

Bible

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike