Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tyger, Frank

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

'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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Shakespeare, William

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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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

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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?

22.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Luther, Martin

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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 never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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