Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Courage

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Bible

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Cicero

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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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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

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weininger, Ben

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Luce, Timothy

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Waitley, Denis

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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