Motivational Quotes

Courage

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Young, Owen D.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

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 and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Forbes, B. C.

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Voltaire

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

Carnegie, Dale

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova