Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

King, Basil

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

Joel, Billy

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

14.

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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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 not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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 can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Plutarch

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Cicero

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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 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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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