Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

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

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Plutarch

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ovid

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

Worsham, James A.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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.