Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Mark Twain

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

Bible

11.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

12.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

14.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

15.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

16.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

17.

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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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

Pollock, Channing

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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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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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo