Motivational Quotes

Courage

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Bible

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Euripides

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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 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 of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Anouilh, Jean

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Kirby Larson

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

Proverb

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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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?