Motivational Quotes

Courage

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Joel, Billy

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Mark Twain

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Omar

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Valois, Margaret

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

42.

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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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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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.