Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lewis, Sinclair

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Plutarch

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Voltaire

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

Bradley, Omar

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