Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Courage

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Proverb

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid