Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

- Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

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.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Young, Owen D.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Worsham, James A.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

31.

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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bible

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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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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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 to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.