Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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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 the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Eco, Umberto

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

29.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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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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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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 guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Shakespeare, William