Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Brown, Les

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Twain, Mark

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

12.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Horace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?