Motivational Quotes

Courage

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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

Bible

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greville, Lord

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Disney, Walt

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Luce, Timothy

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Anouilh, Jean

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow