Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Johnson, John

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Greville, Lord

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Bible

23.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Cicero

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Disney, Walt

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Seneca

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

42.

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

Valois, Margaret

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

44.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.