Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Weininger, Ben

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.

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

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

Corra Harris

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Monson, Thomas S.

31.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Smith, Sydney

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

King, Basil

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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