Motivational Quotes

Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Menander of Athens

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eco, Umberto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

12.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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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

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

King, Basil

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Mark Twain

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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