Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Luce, Timothy

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

John Wayne

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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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]

Bible

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

King, Basil

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Voltaire

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

William Shakespeare

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Luther, Martin

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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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.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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 and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Samuel