Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weininger, Ben

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lao-Tzu

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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

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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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.

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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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

Horace

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Mark Twain

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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.