Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Hudson, William Henry

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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

11.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

14.

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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Plaut

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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