Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- John Wayne

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sherman, William T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Smith, Sydney

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Mark Twain

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Plutarch

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Disney, Walt

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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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

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark