Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Courage

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Hudson, William Henry

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

11.

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

12.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

13.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

17.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

18.

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

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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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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.

21.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

22.

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

23.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

24.

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

26.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

27.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

28.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

30.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

31.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

33.

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

Bible

34.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

35.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

36.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

37.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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.

49.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.