Motivational Quotes

Courage

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Bible

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

10.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

13.

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

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

15.

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.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

17.

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

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

20.

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

Worsham, James A.

21.

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

Disney, Walt

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Plaut

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

29.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

32.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

King, Basil

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage follows action.