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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

12.

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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Cicero

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Greville, Lord

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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 is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

40.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Twain, Mark

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer