Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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!

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Taylor, Bayard

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

King, Basil

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.