Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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?

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas Fuller

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

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

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Seneca

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Euripides

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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