Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Petit-Senn, John

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kirby Larson

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Pollock, Channing

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.

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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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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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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 who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Joel, Billy

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie