Motivational Quotes

Courage

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

- Hart, Oliver J.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Horace

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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 is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mark Twain

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Plutarch

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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.

20.

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

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