Motivational Quotes

Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Courage

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Disney, Walt

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

Petit-Senn, John

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Plutarch

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

Kirby Larson

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Voltaire

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

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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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 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 bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Roosevelt, Theodore