Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Luce, Timothy

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Luther, Martin

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

Eco, Umberto

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Proverb

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Plutarch

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

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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 almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Disney, Walt

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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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 is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.