Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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 spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Twain, Mark

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Euripides

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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