Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

King, Basil

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Greville, Lord

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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.

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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?

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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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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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

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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