Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ellinger, Jules

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

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

Shakespeare, William

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

King, Basil

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

42.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Greville, Lord

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Voltaire

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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.