Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Pollock, Channing

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Churchill, Winston

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

11.

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.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

John Wayne

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

33.

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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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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Kirby Larson

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

Petit-Senn, John

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William