Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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?

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Smith, Sydney

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

E. M. Forster

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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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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Corra Harris

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Plutarch

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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

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.