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

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

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

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

Battista, D.A.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kirby Larson

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Euripides

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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.

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

Seneca

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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

Bible

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Twain, Mark

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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.