Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Sherman, William T.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Smith, Sydney

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

34.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

35.

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

36.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

37.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord