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

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

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

John Quincy Adams

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Seneca

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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

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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 easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Euripides

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

King, Basil

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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

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

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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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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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.