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

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

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.

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Battista, D.A.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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.

12.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

John Quincy Adams

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Twain, Mark

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy