Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Macleod, Norman

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

E. M. Forster

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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 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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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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Voltaire

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

Cicero

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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