Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Thomson, James

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

Luce, Timothy

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

John Wayne

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

King, Basil

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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?

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

Luther, Martin