Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

King, Basil

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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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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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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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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.

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

Disney, Walt

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Euripides

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

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

Kirby Larson

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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