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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Shakespeare, William

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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]

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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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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Plutarch

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

E. M. Forster

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Thomas Fuller

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Harold Wilson

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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 wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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