Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Plutarch

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

John Quincy Adams

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Thomson, James

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

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.