Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Luce, Timothy

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Johnson, John

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Proverb

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kirby Larson

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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