Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Adler, Freda

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Forbes, B. C.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jean Paul Richter

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Twain, Mark

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare