Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Bible

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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