Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bradley, Omar

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

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

14.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Kirby Larson

18.

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

Karr, Alphonse

19.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

20.

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

23.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

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.

25.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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

33.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

34.

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

35.

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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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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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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

44.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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