Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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.

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

Sherman, William T.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

Plaut

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ellinger, Jules

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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.

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

Kirby Larson

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.