Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

E. M. Forster

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Thomas Fuller

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Disney, Walt

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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