Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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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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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Young, Owen D.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

King, Basil

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Weininger, Ben

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von