Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bible

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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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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Worsham, James A.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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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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.