Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Pollock, Channing

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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.

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Euripides

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cicero

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Petit-Senn, John

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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'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

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Disney, Walt