Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Lawana Blackwell

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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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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

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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 lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plaut

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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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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

28.

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

Luther, Martin

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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 is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

33.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Worsham, James A.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William