Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

King, Basil

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

49.

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

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth