Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Young, Owen D.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Bradley, Omar

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Churchill, Winston

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.