Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

11.

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.

12.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

13.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

14.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

15.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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

17.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

21.

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

Cicero

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

24.

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

Disney, Walt

25.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

28.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

30.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

32.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

33.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Harold Wilson

37.

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

Bible

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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