Motivational Quotes

Courage

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

- Jensen, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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?

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mark Twain

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

11.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Disney, Walt

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

31.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hudson, William Henry

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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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.

42.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Clare Booth Luce

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

46.

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

Bible

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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