Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

King, Basil

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

John Quincy Adams

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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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.

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

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Horace

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Be larger than your task.