Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Greville, Lord

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Bible

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

27.

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

John Quincy Adams

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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 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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

39.

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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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

43.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Horace

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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

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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