Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

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?

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

'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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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'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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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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 brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pollock, Channing

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Bradley, Omar

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Luther, Martin