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

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

Bible

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ovid

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

King, Basil

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

28.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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

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

Cicero

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.