Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Thomson, James

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

E. M. Forster

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

10.

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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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bombeck, Erma

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Horace

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

39.

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

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Smith, Sydney

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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.