Motivational Quotes

Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Smith, Sydney

'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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

24.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

William Shakespeare

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth