Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ellinger, Jules

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Weininger, Ben

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

10.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

11.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

12.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

13.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

14.

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

Cicero

15.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

17.

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

18.

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

Eco, Umberto

19.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

20.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Euripides

22.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

23.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

26.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Bible

28.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

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

35.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

40.

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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

42.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean