Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

10.

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

Mark Twain

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

25.

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

26.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

28.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

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

Battista, D.A.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Euripides

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Plaut

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

Plutarch

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu