Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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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.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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

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

Plaut

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Seneca

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Brown, Les

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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