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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Corra Harris

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

Carroll, Lewis

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sherman, William T.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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.

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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.

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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bible

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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