Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Plaut

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

King, Basil

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

Cicero

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

Bible

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

10.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

14.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Kirby Larson

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

18.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

19.

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.

20.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Luther, Martin

33.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

John Wayne

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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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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

45.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

46.

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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire