Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

Clare Booth Luce

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mark Twain

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Greville, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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 can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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 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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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