Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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 the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Ovid

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Mark Twain

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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

John Wayne

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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

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Twain, Mark

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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