Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Seneca

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

John Quincy Adams

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb

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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 is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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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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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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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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord