Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Twain, Mark

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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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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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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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Proverb

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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.