Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

- Clare Booth Luce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Bible

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Bible

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Voltaire

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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