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

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.

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

Disney, Walt

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

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bible

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

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

12.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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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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

15.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

16.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

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

Kirby Larson

21.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

22.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

Valois, Margaret

27.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

28.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

29.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

30.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

39.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

44.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

49.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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