Motivational Quotes

Courage

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Clare Booth Luce

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.

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Ovid

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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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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

John Wayne

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

Plutarch

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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