Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lao-Tzu

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Forbes, B. C.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Voltaire

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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 means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

E. M. Forster

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

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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.