Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Lee, Harper

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kirby Larson

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

Joel, Billy

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Cicero

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

29.

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

Menander of Athens

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Plaut

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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

40.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Anouilh, Jean