Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

- DeVos, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Richter, Jean Paul

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

King, Basil

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Twain, Mark

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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

41.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

43.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 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