Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradley, Omar

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bombeck, Erma

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Seneca

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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.

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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 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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

E. M. Forster

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod