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

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Plutarch

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

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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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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

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Ovid

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Voltaire

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo