Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

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

John Wayne

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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Mark Twain

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bradley, Omar

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Cicero

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

Luther, Martin