Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Cicero

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Kirby Larson

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

Disney, Walt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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