Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Anouilh, Jean

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Jensen, Andrew

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Luther, Martin

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Bradbury, Ray