Motivational Quotes

Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, John

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

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Anouilh, Jean

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Battista, D.A.

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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 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

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius