Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Bible

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Shakespeare, William

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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.

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

Disney, Walt

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

18.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Mark Twain

34.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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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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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Twain, Mark

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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 takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Tyger, Frank