Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

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

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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 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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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