Motivational Quotes

Courage

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

- Nair, Keshavan

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bradley, Omar

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Cicero

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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

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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!

30.

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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.