Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Richter, Jean Paul

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Brown, Les

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King, Basil

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch