Motivational Quotes

Courage

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

- Morris, Lewis

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mark Twain

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.

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.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

29.

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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

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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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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel