Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Clare Booth Luce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Taylor, Bayard

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?

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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 only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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