Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lindbergh, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Euripides

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb