Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Ovid

11.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

12.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plutarch

18.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

38.

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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

King, Basil

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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