Motivational Quotes

Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Petit-Senn, John

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Bible

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Horace

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Shakespeare, William

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Cicero

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

Young, Owen D.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia