Motivational Quotes

Courage

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

- Konrad, George

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kirby Larson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

22.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

23.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

32.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Ovid

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

42.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Bible

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.