Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Brown, Les

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thomson, James

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett