Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Anouilh, Jean

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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?

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Plaut

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Bible

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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

King, Basil

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston