Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Einstein, Albert

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Bible

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

12.

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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

33.

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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Plutarch

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Basil

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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