Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

John Quincy Adams

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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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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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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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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.

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

John Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, 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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis