Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

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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

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

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

Weininger, Ben

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

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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

William Shakespeare