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

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carnegie, Dale

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.