Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

11.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

King, Basil

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

Kirby Larson

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Proverb

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Smith, Sydney

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

John Wayne

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Horace

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Collier, Jeremy

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greville, Lord

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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