Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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 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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mark Twain

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bible

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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 is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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.

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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

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Quincy Adams

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Voltaire

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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.