Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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?

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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 is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

John Wayne

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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.

Allen, James

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Mark Twain

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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.