Motivational Quotes

Courage

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Euripides

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

10.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Fuller

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

37.

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

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Proverb

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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 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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

50.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible