Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Plutarch

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Luce, Timothy

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

16.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

24.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

25.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

26.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

28.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Bayard

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

46.

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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