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

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

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

E. M. Forster

13.

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 man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Johnson, John

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

Bradley, Omar

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

27.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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

33.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Valois, Margaret

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

John Wayne

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Cicero

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

Greville, Lord

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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