Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Battista, D.A.

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

11.

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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Luce, Timothy

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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

Voltaire

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

King, Basil

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.