Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Taylor, Bayard

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ovid

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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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