Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bible

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jean Paul Richter

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Proverb

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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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, John

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

24.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ellinger, Jules

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Thomson, James

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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.

45.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo