Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Kirby Larson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joel, Billy

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Worsham, James A.

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Smith, Sydney

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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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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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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