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

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Churchill, Winston

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Einstein, Albert

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

26.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Battista, D.A.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Twain, Mark

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Bible

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

King, Basil

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

Harold Wilson

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.