Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

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

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Seneca

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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?

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

48.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Carnegie, Dale